About: Ibrar Ayyub

Introduction We created a project in which a user could control the movement of an Etch A Sketch using a typical serial mouse. The public was introduced to the EAS in 1960 and since then it has stayed virtually the same.  This nostalgic toy is recognized by many generations and we decided to put a […]

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Germany has discovered samples of two types of carnivorous plants that apparently date from the Eocene, embedded in Baltic amber. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the plant leaves and offers opinions on their possible ties to modern carnivorous plants.

Introduction PONG, a video game that simulates a game of Ping-Pong between two players, has a long and pervasive history, and is said to be the first video game ever created. For our final project, we decided to pursue PONG with a twist. We designed and constructed a dual player mode, two-dimensional PONG unit. This […]

David Schneider, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, was interested in exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, but figured this kind of exercise as a home-based project was going to need expensive telescopes; he stumbled across a project at Ohio State University, where resourceful astronomers had figured out a way to spot exoplanets using a device with a lens designed for high-end cameras.

Introduction Our ultrasonic rangefinder is capable of allowing the user to determine his or her distance from an object or wall. When deciding on what type of project to design and construct, we decided that we wanted to create something that would have some practical use in life. Many groups in the past created video […]

INTRODUCTION A synthesizer that produces sounds of different musical instruments when notes are played on a music keyboard(which we created), accompanied by an interactive TV display that also provides educational tools for learning music theory. Summary of our Project We built a music synthesizer that produces the distinctive sounds of several instruments when the music […]

Introduction Our Project is a game that generates arrows which player needs to stroke corresponding keyboard button while background music is playing. Computer-based Dancing games such as DDR and Pump-It-Up are very popular nowadays because they are equipped with both interactive user interface of computer games and dynamics of dance and music. Our version of […]

(Phys.org)—Researchers have set a new record for the quantum factorization of the largest number to date, 56,153, smashing the previous record of 143 that was set in 2012. They have shown that the exact same room-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment used to factor 143 can actually factor an entire class of numbers, although this was not known until now.

The proteins associated with driving the cell shape changes that internalize the embryonic inner ear have been identified by Raj Ladher and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology. “Our hope,” says Ladher, “is that by understanding the morphogenesis of the inner ear, clinicians will become more aware of what to look for in their diagnosis of otic developmental defects.”

According to paper published online November 20 in the Journal of Human Evolution, the age of the Lantian Homo erectus cranium from Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, China, is likely half a million years older than previously thought. Earlier estimates dated this important fossil, which was found in 1964, to 1.15 million years ago.